Title: The History of Linguistics in Europe
Subtitle: From Plato to 1600
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521565324
Availability: Available
Author: Vivian Law
Paperback: ISBN: 0521565324, Pages: 326, Price: U.S.: 26
Paperback: ISBN: 0521565324, Pages: 326, Price: U.K.: 19.95
Abstract:
Authoritative and wide-ranging, this book examines the history of
western linguistics over a 2000-year timespan, from its origins in
ancient Greece up to the crucial moment of change in the Renaissance
that laid the foundations of modern linguistics. Some of today's
burning questions about language date back a long way: in 1400 BC
Plato was asking how words relate to reality. Other questions go back
just a few generations, such as our interest in the mechanisms of
language change, or in the social factors that shape the way we
speak. Vivien Law explores how ideas about language over the centuries
have changed to reflect changing modes of thinking. A survey chapter
brings the coverage of the book up to the present day. Classified
bibliographies and chapters on research resources and the qualities
the historian of linguistics needs to develop, provide the reader with
the tools to go further.
Preface
1. Getting ready to study the history of linguistics
2. Greek philosophy and the origins of western linguistics
3. Towards a discipline of grammar: the transition from philosophy
4. From literacy to grammar: describing language structure in the
ancient world
5. Christianity and language
6. The early Middle Ages
7. The Carolingian Renaissance
8. Scholasticism: linking language and reality
9. Medieval vernacular grammars
10. The Renaissance: discovery of the outer world
11. And what happened next? Linguistics since 1600 - in brief
12. Becoming a historian of linguistics
Lingfield(s): History of Linguistics
Written In: English (Language Code: English)
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